Cosmo exclusive: To mark the release of new movie In Fear, about a couple whose first romantic minibreak takes a turn for the terrible, we've rounded up some REAL dating horror stories...

First dates are a nerve-wracking experience, and while they don't always lead to true love, they can often lead to a hilarious story. To mark the launch of new movie In Fear, which sees a young couple's first minibreak go drastically wrong, we've rounded up some of our favourite real life dating disaster stories for your amusement…

"I was dabbling with online dating, and after exchanging a couple of messages with a guy I accepted his invitation to meet for a drink. It all started okay – slightly bland but pleasant enough. After the third drink I excused myself to go to the toilet, and was surprised to find my date fast asleep on my return! I decided it was time to call it a night, and then had to endure an awkward walk to the station together, during which he told me I was mean. When we finally went our separate ways and he lunged in for a kiss, I made a hasty retreat, relieved to see the back of him. That was until I arrived at the platform and was confronted by him on the opposite side, making exaggerated rude gestures and shouting "she's got drugs." How awkward?" LouJane

"I went on a date with a guy and was telling him a story about the dumb stuff me and my friends did at school. We used to wear fake moustaches all the time and it freaked everyone out because we were the quiet girls. Anyway, I start to tell him this, and I only got as far as "Well we had these moustaches" before he cut me off by saying "OH! I see it! It's cute!" I just stared at him for a few seconds and then said "They were fake." We dated for a month." friedricin

"Last year I asked out a girl at uni I really fancied, and was thrilled when she said yes. As I was walking to the agreed location where we were meeting, I noticed that she was about ten yards in front of me, listening to music as she walked. I decided to run up and get her attention. I get there, and tap her on the shoulder. She screams at the top of her lungs, punches me, and then runs off still screaming. I was left on the outskirts of the uni campus with everyone staring at me like a deranged lunatic." GrowingUpSucks

"I took a girl out to dinner and she agreed to come back to mine afterwards, so I sent my housemates a message informing them that I was bringing someone back so not to be naked/fighting/shouting etc when I arrived home. Anyway, we got home and they were all in their rooms, behaving nicely. Then I took the girl up to my room and lo and behold – my roommates had put my video camera on a tripod aimed at the bed, a bottle of red wine in a cooler with two glasses, lit some scented candles, put out some condoms and left a GIF of a guy windmilling on my laptop. The girl said that she shouldn't have come back and left very quickly. Unsurprisingly, I never heard from her again." skymoks

"I went on a first date with a very strange woman. About 15 minutes into the date, her parents showed up at the restaurant where we were eating dinner. It was very awkward and no, it was not a coincidence. Her parents lived an hour away. She asked them to come meet me (on our first date), but she didn't even tell me that they were coming. Weird." johnsmith66

"I took a girl on a date to the pier with a bucket of peanut butter ice cream. Turned out she had a phobia of water and was allergic to peanuts. It was a short date." Joe1987

"I was meeting my ex-girlfriend's parents, so I went over to her house to hang out. We decided to watch a film and her 14-year-old cat crawled into my lap. I petted it the whole time and it fell asleep on me. When the movie ended I picked up the cat so I could stand up, only to find it was completely limp. I'd spent the whole film petting a dead cat." MikhailTheIV

"Carnival. Mirror maze. She made it out in like three minutes, I was stuck in there for half an hour while she impatiently watched me bump into walls from the outside. Never again." ObiRyaNKenobi

"I'm ALWAYS getting nosebleeds. Unfortunately, during one of my first kisses, it turned out that drilling my nose into her cheek caused enough pressure to make the blood gush out. It was dark, though, and her face was already wet from me thinking snail-trailing is sexy, so we didn't notice for a good ten seconds. When I pulled away I suddenly realised it looked like I was kissing a murder victim." Draganover

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